THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLEXSATURDAY. AUGUST 22, 1896.
The Weekly Chronicle
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LOCAL BKKVITIK9.
Wednesday' Dully
' The mercury rose to 91 this afternoon
" A number of rare and beautiful shells
J are on exhibition in Van Xorden's show
V window, which were gathered on a re
cent visit to the beach.
A number of Salvationists went to
Portland this morning to attend the
officers' meeting: there. . On the 21st
. inst. Mies Addie Steel and Capt. Ward
will be married in that city. '
T About 150 of Portland's leading busi
ness men have sinned a petition to
Sylvester Pennoyer to interfere no fur
ther with the city fire department and
reappoint those discharged.
Mr. S. M. Blandford of the U. S. sig
nal service arrived on the local train to
day. He is engaged in procuring ex
hibits for the Northwest Agricultural
r. Fair to be held at St. Paul. From here
i c he will proceed to Pendleton, then to
Walla Walla.
The work of organizing local Republic
can clubs into county leagues for cam
paign purposes is making good progress,
In several counties leagues have already
been organized'; in a number of others
meetings have been called, and in still
others the initiative steps are being
taken. The first step in that direction
of a Multnomah county league was
taken Monday night.
The racing team which left this morn
ing for Astoria was composed of Messrs,
. .. Gibons, Bartelle, N. J. Sinnott, Soger
; Sinnott, Sherman Frank, Eobt. Teague,
',H. D. Cameron, Harry Kelley, Henry
:: Bills, Ghas. Lewis, Lewis Porter, Chas.
Cooper, J. Maloney, A Clark. Among
the visitors who went down with the
team were A. M. Kelsay, Bert Phelps,
J. P. Mclnerny, W. C. Allaway and F.
D. Hill.
A meeting of gold Democrats was
called for last evening at the Schanno
hall. Judge Liebe presided, and H. J.
' Maier was chosen . secretary! ' Eight
delegates were chosen to go to Portland
to attend the state convention of the
national Democratic party, as follows:
J. P. Mclnerny,' H. J. Maier, J. A.
Croesen, Louis Heppner, K. H. Lons
dale, Frank Clark, J. Condon, J. T,
"Petere. The executive committee con
sisted of Messrs. Geo. A. Liebe, chair
man; J. T. Peters, J. P. Mclnerny and
J. B. Condon. The, state convention
meets on the 23d,
Mr. Jonathan Bourne, jr., has resigned
the secretaryship of the committee. Of
. his motive it is not necessary to apeak,
for his motive is his own, and very prob
ably is the result of mixed considers
tions, says the Oregonian. He has not
yet declared himself, as to his prefer
ences in the campaign, for the only dif-
' ference he has with the Republican
party is on the money issue; .but no
doubt lie feels that since the active work
of the campaign must begin at once, it
. is proper that he should yield to those
who are fully prepared to enter upon it,
Mr. Owen N. Denny has been appointed
secretary of the committee, and has en-
tered actively upon the duties ot the
.. position,
Thursday's Daily
- Henry Tennant was fined $25 by Jus
, -. tice Filloon. In default of payment he
was remanded to jail. , , ."
Our real estate men receive many let
ters daily inquiring about Wasco county
resources and products.
'The civil case of Freeman vs. Barnes,
garnishee, was set for trial thia after
noon before Justice Filloon.
The warehouse door adjoining J. T.
, Peters' office was pushed partly open
. last night by would-be burglars, but they
did not effect an entrance.
Mr.W. H. H. Sherwood of Kalama
and Miss Minnie Board man of Wasco
county were 'married this morning at
the Umatilla House by Eev. John Wood.
The marshal sold a bay and a .gray
. horse at public auction on the etreet to
day. We did not learn the result of the
sale, but bidding was not. very spirited.
.-.The D. P. & A.N. Co. are to be com-
plimented oil their heroic efforts to. get
along without the portage. It is a mys
tery why it can't be operated. Wasco
v News. ' . . - - -.
. The Regulator will bave transported
altogether about 750,000 pounds of. this
season's wool clip the coming Saturday
?'8n,'' -: The'sales were made some time
ago at a low figure. , '
A Mr. S. L. Brxks is .having, a cement
..sidewalk put .in from the gate to. tbe
; . doorstep' of his residence. Mr J. W.
French will have the Bame improvement
made at his residence. " ' - . ' '
Four head of cattle in Walla Walla
county were killed last week from eat
V-ing Kaffir corn.
It wasgreen and about j
18 inches high. ' Some hogs got into the
field and ate some of it. All of the bogs
got sick and one of them died.
Messrs. F. W. Wilson and Max Vogt,
ir loft a l,la nFtarnnnn'a train for As-
v.a ,i, t,h him a mascot
-hi, ,iil i,,r the victory of The
Dalles team for one of the prizes.' This
was . "Augustein," the pngnacione
Chronicle pup. He will be attired m a
scarlet blanket, appropriately worded,
and will always be found where the
team is. v
The decadence of the antelope ia thus
told by the Moro Observer : Whi le look
ing after some of his cows on the John
Day breaks, some time ago, H. Smith
discovered three antelopes in the band.
These are probably the last of once large
herds of antelope roaming this region.
A few years ago Lloyd Smith saw a band
of thirteen in Pine Hollow, and it is
thought these three were the remnants
of that band.'
lion. Eobt. Mays, who has .been out
threshing, says he found the banner
threshing crew. . They are Capt. Van
Woodruff's outfit, sixteen in number,
all enthusiastic McKinley supporters,
They say : "Give us old-time Eepub-
lican rule and then we can always -find
something to do, and with ample em
ployment comes good wages and plenty
of money." Mr. Mays says this is. the
second threshing outfit he has seen who
shout McKinley at every opportunity.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was 91 degrees. This heat would be con
sidered extreme in the East and would
cause many deaths, but it did not even
create discomfort in The Dalles. There
are two reasons for this. The beat of
summer, like tbe cold in winter, is not
so penetrating as in tbe tranB-Miesis-sippi
country. Then there is nearly al
ways a west breeze, which being freight
ed with the life-giving oxygen of the
ocean air, invigorates, instead oi aeon
States. Our climate is all that could be
desired. .
Mr. J. W. Lauderbach of Stevenson,
who was in the city yesterday, stated
that there were about 80 miners in the
Rock creek country digging gold. The
pay does not run-high, but as a rule
miners can easily pan out from $1.50 to
$2 per day. The way in is over a very
high mountain, inaccessible in winter,
and arrangements are already being
made by miners to get enough provision
stored by this summer to run them
through the winter months. Once in tbe
mining district the altitude is little great
er than at Stevenson, and there need be
no cessation of labor -on account of the
season. 'There is abundance .of water
everywhere.
Friday's Daily.
D. C. Herrin will lecture this evening
to an A.. O. V. ' W. audience in Pea-
dieton.
Five prisoners escaped from
the
county jail at Pendleton Wednesday
ight and are still at liberty.
Mr. . N. Chandler, who has been ont
in the country recently, says the potato
crop generally will be about a half crop
oil account of the dry weather.
Eange food is good and stock is re
ported to be doing very well. The see-
ond crop of alfalfa hay is being secured
and there will be a large supply of hay you in the consummation of this diaboli
for use during the coming winter. cal deed?
The father of a bridegroom stopped a There is another little trick, pertain
wedding the otter day at Antelope by ing to political economy, that you don't
rising when the clergyman asked if any seem to get on to. It's this way. ' Sup-
one knew just cause why the marriage
whould not take place and announcing
that bis son was already married.
Reports come . from Mt. Adams that
the placer finds are good pay. Master
Cradlebaugh recently sent in about 25
cents worth of coarse gold he had panned
put himself to hie. mother. Mr. Cradle
baugh and son will return about the 5th.
A special telegram this afternoon re
ceived by The Chbonicxk states that
The Dalles, boys lost in the Astoria hose
race today. They couldn't hold the
kink in tbe hose until the nozzle could
be attached. Although the boys lost the
wet test, due to the accident, there is
still a chance to retrieve themselves.
The highest temperature so far during
the week was 76, and the lowest 54 deg.
With the high temperature of 96 the
relative humidity was but 20 per cent.,
says Observer Pague, thus preventing
any injurious enects from tbe heat.
High temperatures prevail over Oregon
every year, but due to tbe dryness of the
air, sunstroke and prostration are un
known. . ,
Condon Globe : : We regret very much
to learn that our old friend,George Coffin
of 30-Mile, is lying at the point of death
with heart dieease ana dropsy, with a
very slim- chance of recovery. ; This is
the same' complaint that caused the
death of so many of our noble old citi
zens within the last year or eo T. B.
Hoover, H. W. Pentecost, J. H. Morris
and others.
The garnishee caee was settled out oi
court yesterday. The trial of Tennant
for larceny of a watch by bailee came up
at 3 o'clock this afternoon before Justice
Filloon. The plaintiff charges that the
watch, which she accidentally dropped
in the river, was recovered by Tennant
and pawned. He told a different story
about it to her, and she learned it was
in the pawn shop - by - accident. She
thereupon had him arrested. V -
Mrs. . Sharon and Mre. Bassett have
opened . dressmaking parlors in the
Chapman block.. - ,: aug20-lw
OLD-FASHIONED SENSE.
I A Kealden of Victor Treats Oar Bead-
era to a Sample or It.
Since little Billy, has undertaken to
stand at the head of the great Demo-
cratic party and
to diecusa tbe money
Question. I feel that it is my duty as a
long-time and dyed in the wool Demo
crat, to give him some country cousinly
advice. Yon bad better drop this mat
ter, Billy. It's too practical for you.
Poetry and rhetoric are your stronghold.
In this field you are immense. Besides,
these sordid bankers, merchants, farm-
era, mechanics ana aay-iaoorers, wno
will vote this fall, know but little about
poetry. They will admire and applaud
your grand metaphors, whether they
mean anything or not, but when you at
tempt to instruct them in dollars and
cents problems, they are apt to laugh
at you.
These quarreling wretches bave been
forced by Btern necessity to study this
plain; practical query.' They bave found
out long since that the office of the dol
lar is toi measure values, that it has no
power to fix or determine values. All
of the errors hioh you people'are mak
ing, originate from the misconception of
that abstract term, dollar. The dollar
measures values. .The scales, yardstick
and half-bushel boxes measure quantity.
These practical people ' would regard
with suspicion a long-haired elocution
ist, stating that the number of pounds
ot wheat in a sack is increased or di
minished in proportion to the number
of scales there are to weigh with.
Neither would the said elocutionist es
tablish a claim to sanity by saying that
tbe price of the wheat is lessened or in
creased in proportion to the number of
dollars that happen to be coined.
The weight of the wheat is determined
by tbe laws of gravitation.. The scales
are a contrivance to measure this at
traction. V
The price is fixed by the laws of sup
ply and demand. The volume of wheat
in right constitutes the supply on one
side, and the grand aggregation of de
vouring stomachs, constitute the demand
on the other. The relation of these two
elements fix a value on the wheat. . The
dollar is used as a measure of that
value. v
Then there is another little matter,
Billy, that I must not overlook. You
hold out the idea that this government
can pav off its bonded debt with coined
silver dollars, dollar for dollar, eyen
though they should be worth only 50
cents. Now I don't believe that this
could be made . to work. It does not
seem to harmonize - with the implied
agreement that the holder ot every obli
gation must be paid in full. I know
people are pretty hard op these times,
still the fires ot patriotism are still
smouldering away, ready to blaze forth
with irresistible splendor when an at-
tempt is made to traduce our national
honor. Pause Billy. Pause and con
sider the history of our race ! Those
battle scarred veterans who planted firm
our national nag and established our
national honor, are not all dead yet. A
beneficent Providence has blessed them
with manv Bona of the same loval blood.
lis to these you speak. Uan you in
Cold blood ask them to join hands with
pose these foreign bondholders should
be induced by the mighty persuasive
power of your eloquence to accept 50
cent silver dollars in payment for their
bonds. Would the debt , be paid?
Would not these same legal tender dol
lars come back here in payment for the
products of our labor, such as wheat,
beef, pork, wool, etc. . A debt is a debt)
Billy. The ultimate payment of all
debts must be made with the products
of past labor saved. You may invent as
many schemes as yoa wish, but you can
never pay a nation's debt with anything
but the products of tbe nation's labor.'
This has always been. so. Hence we con
clude that it will continue to be eo as
long as intelligence is pretty evenly dis
tributed over the world. During the
last thirty years we have borrowed a
great deal of money. We have bor
rowed several billions to blow in on toll
roads." Our public lands have passed
into the homes of private owners who
have straightway' proceeded to mortgage
the eame, and in many cases the pro
ceeds have been invested in luxuries
pianos, organs, buggies, etc. -We have
had a grand old time as long as our
territory lasted. If we could discover,
some magic .wand, with which to wipe
out all of theee ugly debta, it would be
very nice. Such ephemeral dreams,
however, belong in childhood's happy
realm. Grown people know better. We
mn?t face the music; we must pay our
.1, t.ti hp per terms of our original con
tract?, it we expect to hold up our
head a and brag about being Americans.
Besides its possible that we will have to
pay our debts honestly and fairly. The
rest of tbe civilized world might con
clude to lick the stuffing out of us if we
don't.. " . -
Victor, Or:, Aug. 15, 1896.
' . F. S. Gordon.
A Popular Defendant.
Tennant is again in the toils, having
been arrested today on complaint of
Georgie Smith for larceny of a watch by
bailee. ' According to tbe .story told
Jailer FitzGerald by defendant the fair
Georgie had been arrested and brought
before Recorder Phelps and fined $10.
Failing to pay the money she was given
five days in jail. After .serving out half
the sentence she became tired of res
traint and gave tier watch to Tennant to
pawn.. He got $G on it, paid the $5 to
the recorder thus setting her at liberty,
and blew in the dollar remaining. Now
she instigates the arrest. .Whether this
story will be entitled to as much con
sideration as the remarkable saddle ex
perience remains to be seen.
DON'T WANT THE LOCKS OPEN
Portland .Jobbers Belmla the Inland
Empire and Create Advene
Sentiment.
: A party of Indiana tourists, business
men and their wives.came up on the Reg
ulator last night. With them were a mer
chant of The Dalles and his wife, whom
we will call Mr. and Mrs Jones, as they
do not desire publicity in the matter,
iney oecame acquainted with them on
tbe way ud from the locks, and the story
of their acquaintance is worth telling,
Mrs. Jones happened to be sitting near
them in'the ladies cabin, when the con
versation turned upon the locks. Tbe
gentlemen were telling their wives all
about them with that peculiar eatisfac
lion every man feels when he thinks he
is imparting valuable and exclusive in
formation to his better half. The woman,
noticing the grand walls of masonry and
other evidences of the great work at the
locks, had inquired, of their huebands
concerning their utility.
, "Those locks are a fraud," said the
gentleman addressed with all the confi
dence born of a complete information
"They have been building over twenty
years. The reason they have not been
completed long years ago is because they
are' of no use . when they are built,
mere is nothing to ship when they are
completed. It was just a political
scheme in the first place to furnish jobs
to pay political debts. The country
which they command is nothing but a
barren waste juBt a stock range, not
very good for that. The only part of
Oregon worth anything is the Willam
ette valley country and its . outlet is
Portland. .
Mrs. Jones could not help overhearing
these 'remarks, and looking in the face
of the lady addressed noticed the look of
commiseration gradually assuming ex
pression therecn. The fearful misrep
resentation troubled Mrs. Jones and she
spoke to her husband about it.' - He
made up his mind to remedy the im
pression, if possible. Before he got
through be discovered that the tourist
was merely reproducing the sentiments
and misstatements of some Portland
jobbers, and in this way they are influ
encing the sentiment of the East against
the locks and Eastern Oregon. Tbe
spirit is one of blind selfishness. Most
of the Portland business men imagine
that when . the locks are opened they
will lose the trade of Eastern Oregon,
and in conjunction with the railroad in
terests will do as they have done, retard
the work at the locks by every means in
their power.
Before these particular tourists had
finished with Mr. Jones, however, they
were made aware pf their false esti
mate, and hereafter they will champion
the cause of tbe Inland Empire when
ever they hear it assailed. The gentle
man had concluded bis talk with the
ladies and was taking a kodak picture of
one of the beautiful scenic points of in
terest on the Columbia which even
Portland business men are powerless to
disparage. Mr. Jones found him a very
pleasant gentleman and they bad sev
eral mutual friends in Indiana, which
had a tendency to promote the best
of feeling. Mr. Jones found an early
opportunity to take up the question of
the locks and their importance as a
commercial factor id our development.
He impressed upon him tbe magnitude
of our annual wool and grain interests,
our immense stock interests, the large
number of carloads of fruit which leaves
every 'season for tje north and middle
west, and the fishing interests, which
employ hundreds of men every year;
that the wool shipments alone amounted
last year to between eix and seven mil
lion pounds, and that this year they
would be increased by a million more.
The tourist was impressed ' with the
truth of Mr. Jones' statements, and be
ing invited to the house, he was Bhown
enough documentary evidence of the re
sources ot our country to everlastingly
remove the veil of misinformation
placed before his eyes by certain Port
land jo libera. That Portland has antag
onized the construction of the locks
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with all the power Bhe could command,
has long been known, but it is not often
that the particular way in which she
does it comes to light, as in 'this in
stance. They do not talk 'in this man
ner to our own people who go down
there.
A Straw. . .
Perhaps the younger generation
would give us the truest index of how
the country will vote. It may be sup
posed they will have the same leanings
as their fathers from hearing them talk.
A store in tbe city has McKinley caps,
also the Bryan article. Both cost the
same, invariably 15 cents, and both are
handsome and ' well made. The Mc
Kinley and Hobart cap is in "gold"
trimmings with the names of tbe candi
dates in bold letters, and the Bryan and
Sewall caps have silver trimmings in the
same style. Asking one of the little
fellows, who more a McKinley cap, bow
they were selling, he replied that about
thirty boys had the McKinley cap,
while about four had the Bryan head
gear. This is probably about the ratio
their papas would.vote.
Round Cornered Sack Suits in all the pop.
ular cloths, Cheviots, Cassimeres, .Serges, Tweeds
trimmed and tailored in the highest style of the art
sewed throughout with pure silk thread cut to fit
the figure and made to wear as only perfect goods
can wear.
This Label on a Garment in
sures Perfect Fit f
and Satisfaction Ls r I
. It stands for the best that
Money Can Buy or Skill
Produce.
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Fewest wearing parts, lightest "running, high-cutting
ppeed. Especially adapted for cutting grass orcoarse grain.
THE NEW CHAMPION TWINE BINDER, simple
in construction, and, like the Mower, few repairs needed. .
; JOS. T. PETERS & CO., Agents.
This
is the
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jMjgf Smoking
Tobacco
made.
A S6400 Cleanup.
Walter Brown was in Long Creek
few daya since, having just completed ,
cleaning up at his placer mine at the
Black Butte mines. His cleanup was a.
neat sized gold brick amounting to $6400.
and while not aa large as he expected,
yet it is sufficient to enable him to de
clare a dividend of 500 to each of tha
seven shareholders, of tbe mine.- Tbe)
Dunlap placer mine, of which Mr.
Brown has had control for the past two
years, has ranked among Grant county' .
best gold producers, and is good to hold
such a record for several seasons yet.
When Baby wax sick, we gam her Castorta,
When she was a Child, ahe cried for Oastoria. '
When she became Miss, aha clung; to Castoria
Then (he had Children, ahe gare them Castorle
There's no clay, flour, starch or other '
worthless filling in "Hoe Cake" and no
free alkali to burn the hands. jly24
The Dalles, Or.
Wobble-Geared Mower.
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